Irish banker Gerry Byrne has been named head of Santander Group’s European banking business, where he’ll oversee operations in its home market of Spain and in Portugal, the UK and Poland and a global consumer finance business. Irish banker Gerry Byrne has been named head of Santander Group’s European banking business, where he’ll oversee operations in its home market of Spain and in Portugal, the UK and Poland and a global consumer finance business. The former AIB executive had been chairman of the supervisory board of Santander Bank Polska - which emerged from AIB’s former Polish division Bank Zachodni, which Byrne joind in 2001. AIB was forced to sell the Polish business in 2010 as a condition of its bailout. Banco Santander is the largest bank in the euro zone by market capitalisation.

Source: Irish Independent April 03, 2019 15:41 UTC